Special assessment charges reduced

Residents of Muskegon Township's Dangl Park subdivision will be getting a little something from the township in their Christmas stockings this year: an unexpected nearly 20 percent reduction in their December special assessments from a recently completed paving project, plus a credit for money already paid at the higher amount.

The project had originally been budgeted at $150,000, with special assessments of just less than $30 per front foot imposed on residents of the two-block subdivision.

But the actual construction costs came in at $121,375, or $24 per front foot.

Township board members voted unanimously Monday to reflect the change on residents' December 2007 property-tax bills, including full credit for money paid on earlier tax bills at the higher rate.

The subdivision is just west of Dangl Road, between Apple and Marquette avenues. Paved were Oak Avenue from Dangl to Woodland Street; Woodland from Oak to Wesley Avenue; and Wesley from Woodland to Dangl.